QUEEN W.I.P

This is a W.I.P repaint of an old painting. This is the first painting I've done in about 6 months. With that, Im pretty happy as Ive been able to pick up form where I stopped very easily and with better results in half the time. I like the character of the original sketch and will try to incorperate some of the abstract details.

Kevlar Skell

And yes I will learn my lesson one day and stop drawing on lined paper!

Pirate wip

Im not going to bother finishing this one... I started it befor my computer broke. thought I might post it up anyway. And yeah I had a phase recently of doing cleichet subject matter... its fun to do and requires very little imagination ; )

2nd time lucky?

I don't know why it stuffed up in the previous post.

More!

More Doodads

Here are some more sketches from work. I couldn’t be bothered fixing up the proportions on some of the character sketches, besides I’m doing this from my garage because my other computer is broken.

More Faces

Lately I’ve been revisiting old Photoshop files and seeing if I can improve on them. Also with this image in particular, I tried a new technique of adding colour to black and white sketches. Previously I had had limited success by using colour overlays in Photoshop. However the other day a mate at work showed me how to use gradient maps to add multi-tonal colours to images, this allowed me to get colours with nice saturated gradients which I was previous unable to achieve. For a first attempt it's not too bad; however I'm planning to use this technique a lot and hopefully will improve retrospectively. In the image I’ve added the original as a comparison. I eventually gave in and went on the net to look for references to help nut out the shapes of particularly the eyes. I find that if I look at references and other art work the quality of the final results is much greater.

Some more retro posting!

Here are some sketches I’ve done at work (it’s probably safe to say that most of my sketches are done at work). I seem to have a thing for skulls...yep!

Robin (or there abouts)

I’m quiet pleased with how this speed paint turned out. Only took about 30mins during lunch. I decided to try painting something that I wouldn’t usually think about painting. Just to freshen things up which seems to have paid off!

Sas man

Slow and steady... I haven’t had much time recently to do much sketching or painting. I’ve managed to squeeze this one in over a couple of lunches. About 3 hrs...I know, something like this should only take about an hour. Still wrestling with colours and styles,trying to find one that works for me! (an yes, wrong coloured beret).